What Does Michael Phelps Eat?: A Champion Athlete diet

By comparison, the average man of the same age needs to ingest about 2,000 calories a day.

Why so much food?

Phelps has to keep his intake up in order to compensate for all the calories he burns during training. He trains 30 hours per week. Assuming 5 days of training and two days of rest. Phelps spends at least 6 hours a day training hard. With his super size meals I assume he spends another 2 hours a day eating!

Pizza is actually pretty good for you if its fresh and not filled with artificial fillers and preservatives, fried eggs as well. Your body needs fats and oils and cholesterol in order to function properly. Now if all you ate were “insert fast food chain here” burgers all day long and didn’t exercise at all they you are going to turn into a cornfed pig. Try swimming a few miles a day and lifting and running and you too could eat this without looking like homer simpson.

Its not about looking like a homer, its about the shit that is in those foods building up in your body. Sure you can burn off calories quickly, but dairy and red meat takes a long time to digest. Athletes eat much better than this while training.

I am sure that this is to represent his calorie intake and not necessarily his daily meal plan.

Actually I can disagree with this statement vongrad and doop, My local town does an Ironman so these athletes end up training similar amounts to what michael phelp trains typically 6 hours a day, and I’ve met plenty of them who all say they eat basically whatever they want. They need to consume so many calories that it’s not really a big deal on what they consume as long as they get plenty of protein and carbs.